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Burlington Coat Factory upgrades its computer infrastructure with Oracle 10g software.

Kroger deploys the IBM Store Integration Framework (SIF) in more than 2,470 supermarkets across the country.

In response to the way consumers find, browse and purchase their products online -- and to help generate excitement over a re-designed outerwear product line -- IBM helped L.L. Bean create a rich internet application for L.L. Bean's outerwear product line.

Nestl employs close to 250,000 people and maintains factories or operations in almost every country in the world.

Brown-Forman, one of the leading producers and marketers of distilled spirits such as Jack Daniels and Southern Comfort, sought to enhance communications and business processes for its employees.

Retailers are challenged to be ever more responsive to consumer demand. Strategies, like customer-centricity and multi-channel convergence, put pressure on instore inventory, which then pressures the consumer goods supply chain to perform flawlessly.

7-Eleven Inc. announces winners of its 2006 Retailer Initiative Awards.

Swiss drugmaker Novartis AG is rumored to be considering the sale of baby food maker Gerber Products Co. to Nestle, reported the Wall Street Journal.